Re: [moose-devel] GSoC Schedule

[Subhasis R. <ray...@gm...>]

Dear Vivek,
  Can you please give us some pointers to your previous work (assuming they
are publicly hosted)?

Best,
- Subhasis
(  ʃʊbʱaːʃɪʃ )


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:31 AM, vivek sagar <viv...@gm...>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
>
>
> I am working towards participating in GSoC 2014 on the project
> "*Optimization
> of parallel computation in MOOSE*". I have been corresponding with Mr.
> Subhasis Ray for a few weeks now, and have got a basic idea of how to
> create new classes in MOOSE.
>
> I am working on a proposal for the GSoC application, a major part of which
> is the schedule with proposed milestones. This is what I have come up with
> so far:
>
>
>    - ·      May 19 - May 26: *Reading up Literature* - Praveen (the student
>    who worked on GPU implementation last year) suggested I read up *The
>    book of GENESIS* to get a good idea of how Neural Network Simulators are
>    built. Considering I have no prior knowledge in this field, I think that
>    this, along with other literature on such simulators, will help me
>    understand the concepts I will need. I have already begun reading it,
> and
>    it has already provided a lot of perspective on what I will be working
> on.
>    I will be getting started on this well before the beginning of the
> coding
>    period (May 19).
>    - ·      May 27 - June 4:* Vacation* - I plan to do a long distance
>    cycling trip over 10 days during this time. Still figuring out the
>    logistics. Most probably from Bangalore to Goa! J
>    - ·      June 5 - June 11: *Brushing up parallel programming concepts* -
>    With a decent idea of the sort of problems Neural Network Simulators
> try to
>    solve, I think now would be a good time to look up all the concepts of
>    parallel programming that I will need to implement parallelization. I
> have
>    done some work in parallel programming before using OpenMP and CUDA, but
>    brushing up my concepts with a clear requirement in mind will definitely
>    help ease writing code as I move forward.
>    - ·      June 12 - June 20 : *Praveen's Implementation* - I think
>    Praveen's implementation of the Hines' Solver will be a good place to
> start
>    familiarizing myself with the code. He has provided a general overview
> of
>    the work he did, and his code itself. Hopefully, those resources (along
>    with some help from the mentors) will be enough to understand the
>    implementation. I understand that this code hasn't been committed to the
>    main repository yet, and would love to be able to polish it and commit
>    (Although this is most certainly an extended goal).
>    - ·      June 21 - June 30 : *Implementing Hsolve* - By the halfway
>    point of the program, I hope to have completed implementation of the
> Hines'
>    Solver. I don't know exactly what this will entail. Praveen mentions
>    buffering neuron spikes. From what I understood reading the sourceforge
>    wiki, this involves only "Cable Equations and biophysical
> calculations". Do
>    correct me if I am wrong.
>    - ·      July 1 - July 31 : *Implementating another component* - After
>    this point, my understanding of what needs to be done and what can be
> done
>    is very sketchy. I would like to parallelize at least one more
> component of
>    the system, but am not sure exactly what that will be. The wiki mentions
>    "Single neuron branched reaction-diffusion calculations" and "3D
> reaction
>    diffusion calculations", so maybe one of those. Another possibility is
>    parallelization of a different solver. I will need some help figuring
> this
>    out. Also, please note that I will be out for a week or so at some point
>    during the month.
>    - ·      August 1 - August 18 : *Cleaning up* - I thought that I should
>    allow for some time to polish up my code, make it readable, and make
> sure
>    all documentation is up to date. This will ensure that the code is clean
>    before I commit it to the main repo. This time will also act as a buffer
>    period in case there is some bit of implementation remaining.
>
> There are a few rough edges in this schedule, so I was wondering if I could
> get feedback on it and some help with filling in the holes.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Vivek
>
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